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IGNACY KSIAEK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF T0 FRANK W.KORALESKI, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

AUTOMATIC SAFETY CAR-FENDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 26, 1910.

Application filed July 23, 1909; Serial No. 509,147.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IGNAOY KsIAEEK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Safety Car-Fenders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improved automatic safety car fender, and hasfor its essential object to provide a device with an auxiliary automaticsafety attachment, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combinationof parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a passenger carequipped with this improved automatic safety fender; Fig. 2, a top orplan view of said device; Fig. 3, a side elevation thereof, showing theautomatic safety attachment in normal, raised position; and Fig. 4, aside elevation showing the fender acted upon, causing the automaticsafety attachment to assume its lower, operative position.

This improved automatic safety fender is applicable more especially foruse in city and interurban street-cars, although it can be usedelsewhere as desired. As indicated in Fig. 1, said device is fixedlysecured at the respective ends of the passenger car 5, said devicecomprising an outer movable fender guard 6 normally in lowered position.To the opposite bottom car floor beams 7 is secured an intermediate,transverse bar 8,having formed on its lower sides suitable hangers 9 forengaging the inner ends 10 of a movable frame 11, which is illustratedas a substantially Y- formation, its outer end traveling within asuitable guideway 12 formed in the end supporting car beam 13. The outermovable fender guard 6, as shown, is pivotally mounted between theoutwardly projecting ears 14, of a bracket fastened to the car frame.The forward end 12 of the movable frame, as best shown in Figs. 3 and 4,engages a curved finger 15 connected to the movable fender 6, so thatwhen the same is actuated the frame 11 will be rocked forward as thefender moves inwardly. A transverse supporting beam 16 is positionedbeneath the car body a suitable distance rearwardly of said movableframe, for permitting an auxiliary safety fender 17 to be hinged theretoat its upper end 18, said aux iliary safety fender being preferablyformed from suitable metal, having its lower outwardlycurved end 19weighted and provided with forwardly extending fingers 20.

In use, the outer movable car fender 6 is in the normal, downwardposition shown at Fig. 8, it being understood that its automaticauxiliary safety attachment is in raised position. WVhen an object isencountered, the outer movable fender 6 will be thrown inwardly, asindicated in Fig. 4, actuating the movable frame 11 forwardly andautomatically releasing the auxiliary safety fender 17, whose outerweighted ends 19 cause the same to instantly descend into lowermostposition ready to catch the object beneath the car. To the outeropposite fingers 20 may be secured chains, ropes or other means forraising the same into upper, normal position from within the car, itbeing intended that a suitable guide or indicator be placed inconvenient location for the car men to ascertain whether the device isin normal position.

Although I have described the construction of the device with someparticularity, it is to be understood that the same may be constructedin various ways without departing from its principle of operation.

Without limiting myself to the aforesaid construction, I clann:

1. An automatic safety car fender having an outer movable fender, aninner auxiliary fender normally in raised position, and a movable framehaving its inner beveled ends in normal engagement with the auxiliarysafety fender, and having its outer frame end in slidable engagementwith the end supporting car beam, the outer end engaging a finger on theouter movable fender so that when the latter is actuated inwardly themovable frame will be rocked forwardly, re leasing the inner auxiliarysafety fender, substantially as described.

2. An automatic safety car fender comprising an outer movable fender, aninner auxiliary safety fender, a transverse brace between said fendersprovided with hangers,

a movable frame having its inner ends travelfender to be automaticallyreleased, ining Within said hangers and its outer end in stantlyassuming a lowered position, subslidable engagement With theend-supportstantially as described.

ing car beam, means connecting the outer IGNAGY KSIAZEK. movable fenderWith said frame so that Vitnesses: when the same is actuated the framewill be ISAAC Dom,

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